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March 13, 2018

Updated the Slovakia galleries

Without photographs introducing Slovak cities, towns, villages, and beauties of nature these pages would not be complete. The latest group of galleries is
dominated by castles, mainly ruined mountain stony castles like Blatnica, Cachtice, Hricov, Lietava, Old, Sulov, Strecno, and Tematin as well as by castles in
better shape like Budatin and Orava. Beside these, also a gallery of Bratislava, our capital and some more have been published.

Do you like a bit different view of the ordinary scenes around? Seeing once some catching infrared photography, I thought to try it myself, too. The photographs
published here were taken by an ordinary DSLR camera put on a tripod and having an infrared filter screwed on. The results coming from the camera are red like
hell but after a black and white conversion, a contrast and lightness correction, and possible recolouring of the sky and water, the results are quite usable,
aren't they.

Already fourteenth traditional Zilina's carnival took place in the beginning of February. A reasonably good weather and a rather bearable temperature brought
many people out into the streets. 400 masks have been announced by the organisers though without foreign guests this time. We could see many old as well as new
faces. Krampus.sk was the most attractive group with really great demonic costumes. The crowds were in a great mood again and that is what counts.

The end of September is a perfect time for photography in Spain if the weather allows naturally. We were lucky and the sky was blue most of the time so we
enjoyed the trip greatly. We visited the two largest Spanish cities, Madrid the capital of the country and Barcelona the capital of Catalunya (being there on
the controversial separatist plebiscite's eve). We also saw Bilbao the capital of the Basque Country, historical Santiago de Compostela, and Santander.